Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

12 points by distortedsignal 10 months ago

► curl https://old.reddit.com/ -v

* Host old.reddit.com:443 was resolved.

...

> GET / HTTP/2

> Host: old.reddit.com

> User-Agent: curl/8.9.1

> Accept: /

>

* Request completely sent off

< HTTP/2 500

< content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

...

< content-length: 300

<

<html>

  <head>

    <title>reddit broke!</title>

  </head>
vs

► curl https://www.reddit.com/ -v

* Host www.reddit.com:443 was resolved.

...

> GET / HTTP/2

> Host: www.reddit.com

> User-Agent: curl/8.9.1

> Accept: /

>

* Request completely sent off

< HTTP/2 302

...

< content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

...

< content-length: 412

<

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>

  <head>

    <title>302 Found</title>

  </head>
...
gnabgib 10 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135007

  • distortedsignal 10 months ago

    Saw that after posting this. I feel like a dumb.

    • aqueueaqueue 10 months ago

      That account is a bot. Not an insult as it is a useful bot. But that is why they spotted it.

      • gnabgib 10 months ago

        I'm not a bot. Obviously a bot would be programmed to say that, but they wouldn't make my typos.

        • aqueueaqueue 10 months ago

          I suspect you are a human that also has a bot running on the same account name. If not you are using a tool. If not you are an avid digital archaeologist.

          • gnabgib 10 months ago

            You should probably allay @hlloyd1925's fears you were accusing them. No automation, just sometimes paying attention.

      • hlloyd1925 10 months ago

        No, just a new user.

        • aqueueaqueue 10 months ago

          Didn't mean you, sorry for the confusion.

    • consumer451 10 months ago

      Don't feel like a dumb.

      I am super paranoid about losing old.reddit. When I saw the "you broke reddit" page, this was also my first thought.

    • lowlevel 10 months ago

      I for one don’t blame you for panic posting … so much is turning to shit these days…

Rzor 10 months ago

That's awful. I only access Reddit through there. Let's hope it comes back. Back in 2023 Huffmann said that it would stay, but I guess that could somewhat go against their plan of inserting paywalls? We'll see.

>P.S. old.reddit.com isn't going anywhere, and explicit content is still allowed on Reddit as long as it abides by our content policy.

distortedsignal 10 months ago

Looks like it's back. False alarm, everybody.

  • aqueueaqueue 10 months ago

    Reddit down? Must be a day ending in y.